So with the recent announcement of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate, the media and new media have been running wild on her history, background, views, and anything else they can dig up. Some things in particular stick out in my mind.
To start off, I disagree with John McCain’s foreign policy stance. Frankly, it scares me a little bit. However, not too much else on his platform is all that terrifying, although his recent switch to a pro-life stance is disheartening. Palin, however, is a bit scarier. She has spoken in favor of creationism in the science classroom and is not afraid to condemn abortion and gay marriage, as reported by Brother Richard at Life Without Faith and the Bad Astronomer. PZ Myers does a good job of finding this video of her speaking at her church. She clearly ties God’s will to the economic and educational status of her home state of Alaska. That’s a little strange to me, but she’s advocating hard work as well as praying. She scares me at about 3:40 where she claims that God’s plan has led us to Iraq. Uuuuuuggggghhhh! This kind of speech may bring in the religious evangelicals that I had hoped would reject McCain. So if he’s elected, and something happens to him, this country will be directed by Jesus’s supposed will again? (See later parts of the video.)
But, on the lighter side, she helps to further the joke that McCain looks uncannily like Col. Tigh from Battlestar Galactica, taking the place of Laura Roslin. Okay, so I’ve been a bit anti-Roslin as of the last season and a half or so, but I’d still rather have her as President than Palin!
Weeeeiiiirrrrd!
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cambler // September 3, 2008 at 17:51 |
http://www.TighRoslin.com is the official campaign web site
Seth Goldin // September 3, 2008 at 21:30 |
His platform is intrinsically objectionable. Go read about his “national greatness conservatism.” It’s fascistic.
Nicole // September 4, 2008 at 12:51 |
Sure, lots of it is objectionable, but not hide-under-the-couch scary.
Except for what you pointed out. I’ve heard things like that in his speeches before, and it makes me a bit ill. “A cause greater than self-interest” means “give me stuff” or “die in war cuz I say so.”
I prefer “help each other out because it feels good.”